The Confession Game: Assuming It's The Truth,

Should Clinton Play?

Lance Morrow IF HE MUST, DO IT WITH FLAIR

Don't ask an American citizen to try to imagine what he would do if confronted by the squalid and surreal choice facing his President: stonewall or confess. One person--one only--made the disgusting mess: Bill Clinton. Let him find his own way out.

But since the confessionalist camp advises truth telling rather than continued lying (though truth telling of a manipulative kind), I think that option deserves deeper exploration. The confessionalists have not made their case with sufficient imagination, envisioning only one way for Clinton to confess--staring at a camera in the Oval...

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